rx_tab: Match a tab character.
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rx_tab

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Match a tab character.

Description

Match a tab character.

Usage

rx_tab(.data = NULL, inverse = FALSE)

Arguments

`.data`	Expression to append, typically pulled from the pipe `%>%`
`inverse`	Invert match behavior, defaults to `FALSE` (match tabs). Use `TRUE` to not match tabs.

Details

This function is looks for tabs with the following expression: \t

Tab character: https://codepoints.net/U+0009

Examples

rx_tab()
rx_tab(inverse = TRUE)

# create an expression
x <- rx_tab()

# create input
string <- "foo\tbar"

# extract match
regmatches(string, regexpr(x, string))

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